college football

UNDATED (AP) - Indiana's Pacers are off to a 9-0 start to the season and tonight have a home game with Milwaukee. The Pacers are being led by balanced scoring as four of the five starters are averaging double figures.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In college football tonight, 13th-ranked UCLA is home to Washington.Read More »

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The baseball owners have voted to move ahead with increased implementation of instant replay next season. Under the plan, if approved by the players and umpires, a manager will be given a maximum of two challenges per game and a successful challenge would not count against his limit.Read More »

Defense may very well define both sides when Oregon State hosts USC on Friday night.
Both teams are coming off strong defensive efforts - although with different outcomes.
The Beavers (6-2, 4-1 Pac-12) fell 20-12 at home to No. 6 Stanford last weekend, but they limited the physical Cardinal offense to just 273 yards, the lowest total in Stanford's last 14 games.Read More »

Oregon State is much improved on defense. Just ask Stanford.
The Beavers had their best defensive performance of the season in Saturday night's 20-12 loss to the Cardinal. Oregon State held Stanford to 273 yards for the Cardinal's lowest total in 14 games.
OSU's defense all but eliminated Stanford's passing game, which came into Saturday averaging 207 yards.Read More »

The Oregon State Beavers have a history of pulling off unlikely upsets at home in the past decade.
They beat then-No. 3 USC in 2006 and the top-ranked Trojans in 2008. Even last season, they downed No. 13 Wisconsin at Reser Stadium.
The Beavers are hoping for some of that Reser mojo on Saturday night when they host No. 8 Stanford.Read More »

Coach Jim Mora wants to make sure one loss doesn't derail UCLA.
The No. 12 Bruins, coming off a disheartening loss to Stanford, have a chance for redemption - in a big way - against the No. 2 Oregon Ducks this Saturday.
Mora says that so far UCLA's body of work has been good, but it needs to get better by the end of the season to truly see where the Bruins are.Read More »

Brandin Cooks is the nation's leading receiver that no one seems to know about outside the Pac-12 - although that's quickly changing.
The Oregon State junior ranks ahead of all FBS-level receivers with nearly 11 catches and 168 yards receiving per game. He ranks second in scoring with 12 points a game, and fifth for all-purpose yards with an average of 184 a game.Read More »

- Steve Sarkisian finally has Washington where he believed they could get when he inherited an 0-12 program: on the cusp of returning to contention in the Pac-12 Conference.
All they need is a validating victory, and none would be more meaningful for the 16th-ranked Huskies than to knock off No. 2 Oregon on Saturday.Read More »

The football game between Air Force and San Diego State will be played on Thursday night despite the partial government shutdown.
Officials at the academy announced on Wednesday the school has been advised that "all Air Force Academy intercollegiate athletics may resume immediately." The academy said in a release that no appropriated funds will be used to fund these programs.Read More »

Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas is being straightforward about hurting his right ankle on the opening kickoff against California.
While second-ranked Oregon's coaches never talk about injuries, Thomas was frank about his situation even though he didn't have an exact diagnosis.Read More »